Comparing Chinese 'And French Version Of Cinderella'

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Both the chinese version and french version of the cinderella stories have similarities and differences.

There are four main similarities that both stories have. The first similarity is also the one that most little kids know of. Which is the part that yeh-shen and cinderella get married to a prince. The second similarity is that both moms die and get mistreated by their stepmothers. They get mistreated because they get treated like servants. The third similarity is something “magical” helps them (yeh-shen's mother turns into a fish and cinderella has a fairy godmother). The fourth similarity is they both have small feet to fit into their slippers. in the story cinderella her stepsisters feet were too big to fit into the glass slipper. the

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